Changes from outside Wymark
Text that is not your own typing arrives as incoming changes: shown against what you last approved, for you to accept or reject. It does not matter where it came from: a colleague’s e-mail, a chat window, a script, an AI tool. See Review for what accepting and rejecting do.
There are three ways in.
| Use it when | What you do | |
|---|---|---|
| Paste as Incoming Change | The text is in a chat or another window | Copy it, then Edit > Paste as Incoming Change (⇧⌘V). An ordinary paste is yours; after one of outside text, Wymark offers to mark it as incoming. |
| A tool edits the file | A tool can write files on your disk | Point it at the file. Wymark watches the file and shows every write as changes. Turn on the AI sidecar and the tool can also read your review: which changes are pending, which text is yours, and where the comments are. |
| An MCP server | Planned | Not built yet. It will give a tool the same review the sidecar gives, as a protocol instead of a file. Until then, the file with the sidecar on is the way. |
Whichever way, the review is the same: you see what changed, and a change stays pending until you accept or reject it. Comments in the document are the channel back.
# Changes from outside Wymark
Text that is not your own typing arrives as **incoming changes**: shown against what you last approved, for you to accept or reject. It does not matter where it came from: a colleague's e-mail, a chat window, a script, an AI tool. See [Review](/docs/concepts/review) for what accepting and rejecting do.
There are three ways in.
| | Use it when | What you do |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Paste as Incoming Change** | The text is in a chat or another window | Copy it, then **Edit > Paste as Incoming Change** (`⇧⌘V`). An ordinary paste is yours; after one of outside text, Wymark offers to mark it as incoming. |
| **A tool edits the file** | A tool can write files on your disk | Point it at the file. Wymark watches the file and shows every write as changes. Turn on the [AI sidecar](/docs/guide/ai-sidecar) and the tool can also read your review: which changes are pending, which text is yours, and where the comments are. |
| **An MCP server** | Planned | Not built yet. It will give a tool the same review the sidecar gives, as a protocol instead of a file. Until then, the file with the sidecar on is the way. |
Whichever way, the review is the same: you see what changed, and a change stays pending until you accept or reject it. Comments in the document are the channel back.